Emily & Oliver were legally married at Brighton Town Hall with only their immediate family in attendance. Then two days later they celebrated with all their friends & family Ridge Farm in Surrey. They started the day with an outdoor ceremony (not currently legal in England, hence the register office ceremony.)
“I first went to Ridge Farm a couple of years earlier to a music festival called Firegathering organised by a friend of my sister, they had got married there themselves,” Emily told me. “It came to mind as a venue to look round and when I took Oli he feel in love at first sight. A big advantage was we could have the venue for 4 days! We have always enjoyed the day after a wedding as the much as the wedding day itself, all ice has been well and truly broken and its just fab to carry on the party when you have all your loved ones together.”
“Ridge Farm has 11 bedrooms, plenty of land to camp on, a huge bonfire site (great for late night chats), there is a pool house which is covered for the wedding breakfast and then uncovered the following day so that we could have a very informal BBQ and pool party. The venue has amazing rock history and used to have a studio on site, the walls in the house are covered with albums that have been recorded there – artists include Sade, Ozzy Osbourne, James, Pearl Jam, Roxy Music etc.”
“The Ridge Farm ceremony was performed by Peter at Light on Life ,” Emily continued. “We knew that Ridge Farm was the venue for us and they do not have a license to perform legally binding marriages, we didn’t want to spend the day traipsing round the countryside, so decided to have a very intimate ‘legal’ wedding with immediate family and a ceremony in the Orchard all our guests could enjoy.”
“Peter wrote a bespoke ceremony for us and ran with all my partner’s crazy ideas such as parents making and exchanging family flags/pennants during the ceremony. We hired some fete style games such as a coconut shy and splat the rat for people to enjoy/mingle round over the two days – it was Peter’s idea to cut a red ribbon after the ceremony to declare the ‘fete’ open.”
The festival and fete theme of the wedding was brought together by some subtle and cute details. These included bunting from Beautiful Bunting , a tent from The Arabian Tent Company and fete games hired from Carousel Events .
Lisa Devlin for sharing this gorgeous wedding with us today.
Photography Credit: Devlin Photos Venue: Ridge Farm White Leaf Boutique , BrightonVivienne Westwood/Melissa Bride’s Jewellery: Radiance Boutique from notonthehighstreet.com Groom’s Outfit: Gresham Blake Cake: Marks & Spencer Flowers: Kate Langdale Hair & Make Up: Leah Bennett Bunting: Beautiful Bunting Marquee: The Arabian Tent Company Games: Carousel Events
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